Posts Tagged ‘review’

A coworker recommended, in the strongest and most unequivocal of terms, that I check out Crank 2: High Voltage. He described it as an awesomely funny rip-roaring action packed adventure. That was probably six months ago, and I didn’t get around to actually seeing it until it showed up as being available for streaming on [...]

I’d go into a more lengthy explanation, but this summarizes the movie pretty well: Hold up all of your fingers Pretend your fingers are penises Wiggle the fingers on your left hand at the fingers on your right hand and say in a very gruff voice, “FUCK YOU” Then wiggle the fingers on your right [...]

“Good” is a relative term, and in a year as relatively devoid of great movies as 2010 has been, I think Inception is going to be as good as it gets as far as cerebral thrillers go. It’s not terrible. The cinematography is great, the costuming, hair and makeup is flawless, and for the first [...]

I didn’t see Clash of the Titans because the trailers used generic metal-ish music and deliberately edited the movie to make it look like 300 Volume Two. Barf. Plus, I saw Zeus was wearing Iron Man’s suit with the paint buffed off and was all, WTF. However, on my last flight it was the least [...]

I haven’t found a high-quality avant-garde album on the new releases rack since Who Killed Amanda Palmer. No surprise that I had to wait until Amanda Palmer’s next project, Evelyn Evelyn, to hear something that wasn’t just a bunch of stuck up art school grads amusing themselves with tired, inauthentic noise played on deliberately broken [...]